Black & white floor plan on recto, details on verso. Pictorial card. Düsseldorf: Galerie Konrad Fischer, 1982.

Scarce Daniel Buren exhibition announcement. Held concurrently with a show by Ludger Gerdes. In fine condition.

❧ Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 191 (p. 203). More

Black & white illus. on recto, details on reverse with printed address label. Photographic postcard, mailed. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1976.

Scarce postcard invitation to Buren’s 1976 solo presentation with John Weber. The postcard’s recto depicts the artist’s subtle interventions in the windows of the gallery at 420 West Broadway. In excellent condition; mailed to Eve Sonneman.

❧ Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 104. More

Color cover illus. & illus. throughout. [24] pp. 8vo, printed softcover. Lucerne, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1980.

Scarce Daniel Buren (b. 1938) exhibition catalogue, published in conjunction with his exhibition-installation at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Buren reprised his use of striped sails, a medium he had first employed on Wannsee Lake outside of Berlin in 1975. An exhibition at the Akademie der Künste followed that installation. The present 1980 show was preceded by a work in situ on Lake Lucerne (3 May).

The catalogue is printed in parallel German and French and contains diagrams and photographs of the sails and the exhibition... More

Four black & white illus. on folding sheet pasted to the inside lower wrapper. [12] pp. Small 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Geneva: Centre d’art contemporain, 1976.

A booklet published in conjunction with Buren’s exhibition at Geneva’s Centre d’art contemporain (11 February-6 March 1976). This text was originally published in English in Studio International (Vol. 190, no. 977, September-October 1975) under the title “Notes on work in connection with the places where it is installed, taken between 1967 and 1975, some of which are specially summarized here.” This is the text’s first printed appearance in French. The artist’s polemical essay is... More

42 photographic plates pasted-on & poster laid-in. Unpaginated. Large 8vo, orig. boards & orig. printed dust-jacket, perfect-bound. London: The British Council, 2001.

Scarce catalogue for the British Council’s exhibition of artists’ multiples. It begins with an insightful survey of the medium by Bury, then Head of the Modern English division at the British Library. Many of the items exhibited are illustrated, and there is a check-list at the end of the catalogue. The contents of the exhibition were selected by Diana Eccles, Brett Rogers, and Sarah Staton.

A handsomely designed and important catalogue, in fine condition (slightly warped due to... More

168 pp. Small 8vo (164 x 95 mm.), cont. pink paste-paper wrappers (edges worn). Rome: Mordacchini, 1825.

A scarce revised and updated edition (1st ed. under this title: 1819) of this museum catalogue. It describes the institution’s paintings and sculptures, a number of which had been seized by the French during the conquest of Italy and subsequently returned.

A very good copy; some soiling and wear to the wrappers.

❧ For an account of the museum’s establishment see C. Paul, “Capitoline Museum, Rome: Civic Identity and Personal Cultivation,” in The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution... More

Many color illus. 135 pp. Oblong 4to (212 x 300 mm.), pictorial semi-stiff wrappers. Buenos Aires: 2013.

First and only edition of the rare Carrión catalogue raisonné. This is an essential book for understanding Carrión’s life and work, not just for its recording of all of his known bookworks (unique and editioned), but also for the insightful essay by Heriberto Yepez, entitled “The Four Periods of Ulises Carrion,” published here for the first time and not reprinted since.

The catalogue records each of the artist’s books with several pictures, beginning with La Muerte de Miss O. (1966), then the final... More

Many illus. Unpaginated. 8vo, stiff pictorial boards, cloth spine. [Mexico City]: Alias, 2013.

First edition, an uncommon book examining Carrión’s De Diefstal van het Jaar “exhibition” at the Drents Museum in 1982. This show entailed Ulises Carrion (1941-89) displaying a large diamond in a small and dark room of the museum, without any visible security or restrictions, as a social experiment. In the last decade of his life, Carrión’s practice involved similar investigations of societal norms and the dissemination of information. The previous year, the artist had delved into the spread of gossip and rumors through social networks in the... More

Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to, printed softcover, title on spine, illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2016.

The Spanish edition of this exhibition catalogue, now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia (16 March-10 October 2016) and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex (9 February-7 May 2017). Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jan Voss, Joao Fernandes, Heriberto Yepez, Javier Maderuelo, and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works.

Near fine, minimal edgewear. With the inserted DVD present as issued. More

Many black & white illus. Two large folded sheets (299 x 212 mm. folded), unbound. Purmerend: Museum Waterland, [1981].

An uncommon exhibition flyer for a display of bookworks at the Museum Waterland, co-curated by Ulises Carrión and Juan J. Agius. Both featured their own works, along with those of François Bouillon, Axel Heibel, Diderick van Kleef, Federico Sanguinetti, Ben Sleeuwenhoek, Ad Gerritsen, J. H. Kocman, Tom Ockerse, Gèza Perneczky, and Pawel Petasz. Several examples of each artist’s work are pictured. All the works displayed were drawn from Agius’s and Carrión’s personal collections. This catalogue’s text, written by Alex A. M.... More

23, [1] leaves, mimeographed on rectos only. Small folio (288 x 187 mm.), self-bound, stapled. Warsaw: Galeria Remont, 1977.

One of Carrión’s rarest exhibition catalogues. The artist curated this show at the Galeria Remont in Warsaw, a contemporary art space established by the Polish artist and filmmaker Henryk Gajewski (b. 1948) in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979, hosting performance art, exhibitions of photography, stamp art, and bookworks, and many other events. Carrión had staged an exhibition called Contents at the gallery the previous December. The present... More

Card (150 x 106 mm.) with text added by rubber stamp in red, blue, green, and yellow ink. Amsterdam: 1976.

One of the rarest pieces of ephemera created by Ulises Carrión’s bookstore and exhibition space, Other Books and So. In 1975, the year of its founding, the space had hosted shows for the Beau Geste Press, Jiri Valoch, Opal L. Nations, and Eric van der Wal. For the present exhibition, Carrión invited 200 artists who employed stamps in their work and displayed their pieces on the walls of Other Books and So (when it was located at 227 Herengracht).

In... More